Chris M Evans

bbc.co.ukTrump criticises AI boss who called for slowdown and says only guardrail needed is a 'smart president'Stock markets fall in the US, Europe and Asia as Anthropic boss Dario Amodei says AI development should be slowed "to reduce the risk that something goes seriously wrong".

14 Sept

Shame we don’t have one. (A smart president). www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

31 Aug

It’s not quite September and Morrisons already have a Christmas section.

bbc.co.ukE-bike injury payouts top £110m and push up insurance premiumsIt is only seven years since the first claim over an injury from a micromobility vehicle was made.

7 July

Seeing so many more scooters around our village. Most are being ridden by children whose parents must have purchased them on their behalf. Lock the parents up, I say! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

4 July

Let’s be honest, teachers want to watch the football, so deflect the issue by appearing to be magnanimous and let children come in late.

bbc.co.ukThe schools starting late after England v Mexico 'to help parents'Some schools are opting to open late, arguing they are striking the right balance, and many parents have backed the decision.

4 July

Funny how schools can be accommodating for a football match, but not if you want to take a day off early to go on holiday. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

cnbc.comOpenAI proposes 5% stake to Trump administration to ease Washington pressure: reportTrump said in June that the U.S. taking an ownership stake in AI giants would be "a beautiful thing" and make American public "partners in this revolution."

2 July

Shrewd political positioning by AI companies to manage the regulation risk, or capitulating to a protection racket? You decide.... www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/o...

edition.cnn.comA fire at a cold-storage warehouse in Los Angeles has been burning for days. Here’s what we know | CNNThe thick, noxious smoke billowing out of a warehouse in Los Angeles has turned into a fixture in the city’s skyline for almost a week – with no end in sight.

22 June

42,500 tons of frozen food they can't put out. How could so much frozen food cause an inferno? edition.cnn.com/2026/06/22/u...

bbc.co.ukBradford drug dealer caught with £1.6m cash jailedZulfiqar Shah, 58, is jailed for 16 years and six months at Bradford Crown Court.

8 May

Very interested in how they recovered the final £3.82. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

cnbc.comSoftBank reportedly weighs $100 billion valuation for new AI and robotics spinout in potential U.S. IPOSoftBank Group is planning to create and list a standalone artificial intelligence and robotics company, coined "Roze" in the U.S.

Some of SoftBank's investments have been questionable (WeWork, cough), but I think there's genuinely something possible with robot automation of data centres. (1/5) www.cnbc.com/2026/04/30/s...

Building data centres sounds a little more challenging (I'm thinking of the wiring/cabling issues), but we build cars with robots, so why not? (4/5)

The use of robots would seem a logical approach to scaling data centre footprints. Robots can move around 24/7 carry many spare parts, travel up and down data centre aisles easily and recharge themselves automatically. But is this a $100 billion business? (5/5)

Some of SoftBank's investments have been questionable (WeWork, cough), but I think there's genuinely something possible with robot automation of data centres. (1/5) www.cnbc.com/2026/04/30/s...

We already have robot warehouse automation & manufacturing, so data centre build and operation doesn't seem a great leap, although I question the valuation being suggested. (2/5)

Data centres are pretty modular by design, so I can see an initial benefit of using robots to service (remove/replace) failed equipment. With even greater use of modularisation & standardisation, this process should be easy for robots. (3/5)

tweaktown.comNVIDIA is reportedly set to acquire a 'large PC company' the size of Dell or HPAccording to a new rumor, NVIDIA is in the final stages of buying a large company like Dell or HP that will 'reshape the PC landscape.'.

Over the last few years, I've talked consistently about consolidation in the infrastructure part of the IT industry. Is this the start? (1/4) www.tweaktown.com/news/111017/...

The PC market is wider than just two players. I don't see Dell as relevant, due to the legacy parts of the business that NVIDIA will not want and need to dispose of. (3/4)

However, I do see NVIDIA acquiring a PC vendor in order to sell its upcoming N1 chips. The market is competitive and NVIDIA needs a good channel to customers for its new processor. So, despite denials, an acquisition could be on the cards, but I don't think it will be a legacy brand. (4/4)

Over the last few years, I've talked consistently about consolidation in the infrastructure part of the IT industry. Is this the start? (1/4) www.tweaktown.com/news/111017/...

What rings alarm bells in this article is the difference between Dell and HP in terms of market cap and market coverage. Dell is about $122.5 billion with enterprise & consumer divisions. HP is valued at about $17.5 billion and of course, was the PC spinoff from HPE. (2/4)

tweaktown.comMeta is building a photorealistic AI model of Mark Zuckerberg that will keep watch on staff at all timesMeta is building a photorealistic AI clone of Zuckerberg trained on his voice and mannerisms to respond to employee queries in his place.

This is the combination of an effectively infinite supply of cheap cash and zero idea on what to do with it. www.tweaktown.com/news/111011/...

npr.orgMelania Trump shares the spotlight with a robot at an education and technology eventThe robot accompanied the first lady to the White House East Room for the final day of a summit she had convened with counterparts from around the world through her Fostering the Future Together globa...

26 Mar

Which one is the robot? www.npr.org/2026/03/26/n...

20 Mar

First evening of spring. mr blackbird singing his heart out.

theregister.comFormer Microsoft dev trains AI to master Robotron: 2084: Former Microsoft dev trains a model to survive the arcade's most chaotic stress test

16 Mar

Probably my most favourite arcade game of all time. I loved Robotron 2084 and was annoyed by it in equal measure. Really interested to see how AI could help with a game strategy. www.theregister.com/2026/03/16/a...

bbc.co.ukTrump says he's 'not happy' with UK after Starmer says it won't be drawn into wider Iran warThe US president repeats his call for other nations to assist in securing the Strait of Hormuz, after saying it would be

16 Mar

As a man who has already ended eight wars, the current one shouldn't be hard for Trump to finish - after all, he started it. After massive tariffs on the UK, insulting our soldiers and saying he didn't need our ships, now he asks for help. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

16 Mar

TACO president wants out. It's not up to the UK or any other countries to solve his mess. Sorry Donald, you blew it.

5 Mar

Fairly sure Pete Hegseth is talking bollocks here. The General Belgrano was sunk by submarine torpedoes during the Falklands War in 1982.

5 Mar

Please fact check, Sky News.

bbc.co.ukJeremy Corbyn set to become Your Party parliamentary leaderEx-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's supporters won 14 of the 24 seats on Your Party's central executive committee (CEC).

26 Feb

Could there be anything more pointless and irrelevant than Your Party? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

theregister.comMicrosoft teases ‘reimagined SharePoint’ with added AI: Redmond also offers to take the OneDrive name out of your OneDrive

24 Feb

I wonder if they can "reimagine" something that isn't a car crash of a platform? That would be good. Sadly I think they will just crowbar Copilot into the platform and make it even worse. www.theregister.com/2026/02/24/m...

arstechnica.comMeta's flagship metaverse service leaves VR behindThe company asserts it will continue to make VR headsets, though.

21 Feb

Imagine what we could have done if that $80 billion had been put into something useful like fighting cancer or tackling world hunger. Instead it's just been wasted away. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

16 Feb

That will be potholes, surely?

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Just what my wife has been waiting for as her St Valentine's Day gift. And there was me thinking I would just get a dozen red roses and cook a slap-up meal. www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-serv...

Currently watching the Western Digital Innovation Day livestream (unfortunately joining late). I think the CFO is onstage crowing about the remaining shares in Sandisk they own, which are currently worth about $5 billion.

However, Sandisk is currently worth $96 billion and the company owned 100% of it just before the split. At the split, when Sandisk started trading it was worth about $5.6 billion. WD just gave away $90 billion of value and they seem happy with that.

cnbc.comMusk's xAI needs SpaceX deal for the money. Data centers in space are still a dreamIn merging SpaceX with xAI, Elon Musk may be providing his artificial intelligence startup with a much-needed cash infusion.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul? X (formerly Twitter) gets merged into xAI to hide terrible finances. xAI now gets merged into SpaceX likely for the same reason. (1/4) www.cnbc.com/2026/02/02/m...

Orbital data centres? Not sure I see the science or logic behind this, other than the ability to avoid any kind of regulation. So many questions need to be asked here. How long will they be in space, how big will they be? Do they just get destroyed on re-entry? Where's the sustainability? (3/4)

However, despite the negativity, Musk is a genius at keeping the rollercoaster going. Whether that's the dream of orbital data centres or the dream of millions of humanoid robots. He takes Steve Jobs' reality distortion field to another level. (4/4)

Robbing Peter to pay Paul? X (formerly Twitter) gets merged into xAI to hide terrible finances. xAI now gets merged into SpaceX likely for the same reason. (1/4) www.cnbc.com/2026/02/02/m...

It's the subprime mortgage issue all over again, but perhaps not as toxic. Existing X & xAI investors will be happy as they get a slice of a better quality company that has government contracts (SpaceX) and the Starlink business. (2/4)

bbc.co.ukTrump says 'very dangerous' for UK to do business with China as Starmer lands in ShanghaiThe US president's comments come as Sir Keir Starmer arrives in Shanghai on the third day of his visit to China.

30 Jan

With the unpredictability of business with the USA, what does he expect? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

arstechnica.comTesla kills Models S and X to build humanoid robots insteadEVs that were once industry-leading have long since been left behind.

29 Jan

And yet the share price is way higher than justified by the falling revenue/profits or the maturity of the robot technology. Is it just that so many individuals bought into Tesla that they can't afford the haircut if they sell? arstechnica.com/cars/2026/01...

theregister.comIntel prioritizes Xeons over client chips to meet AI demand: CFO David Zinsner says foundry capacity should improve starting in Q2

Intel Corporation is the next company to prioritise the data centre over consumer. But what happens in the consumer space? Let's go back to 2024 when I discussed the rise of Arm on the desktop (www.architecting.it/blog/intel-v...). (1/9) www.theregister.com/2026/01/23/i...

A third "long shot" option is that current sovereignty issues create a rethink on using Windows as a desktop O/S, due to the invasive nature of the current requirements to register an online account. (8/9)

Unfortunately, I think this is likely to be a strategy taken up by only those hard-core tech fans and not the general public. Lots of interesting things to mull over, as usual! (9/9)

theregister.comIntel prioritizes Xeons over client chips to meet AI demand: CFO David Zinsner says foundry capacity should improve starting in Q2

Ultimately, that's the crux of the issue for Arm-based desktops outside of Apple. Yes, Linux desktops are amazing and there are many to choose from. But (a) they're not as slick as Windows for installation (b) they don't have application support to equal Windows. (6/9)

Two scenarios exist - first, Windows is improved to operate more efficiently on Arm than x86; second, apps support gets good enough on non-Windows operating systems to make Linux viable. (7/9)

theregister.comIntel prioritizes Xeons over client chips to meet AI demand: CFO David Zinsner says foundry capacity should improve starting in Q2

It sold off the storage division. All to invest in Foundry, which continues to make massive losses ($2.5 billion in the latest quarter alone). (4/9)

Arm is an alternative for the desktop that may see more popularity if the price point addresses issues like the cost of memory and storage. Apple Arm-based devices need less memory, although they do run a proprietary O/S. The remainder of the market is effectively stuck with Windows. (5/9)

theregister.comIntel prioritizes Xeons over client chips to meet AI demand: CFO David Zinsner says foundry capacity should improve starting in Q2

While that challenge has been muted so far, there are more Arm-based designs around, including NVIDIA as a challenger (www.tomshardware.com/pc-component...). (2/9)